translated from Spanish: Controversial Bishop Durán in the crosshairs: evangelical leaders have suspicions about his heritage

On 20 September, a brigade of crimes of laundering of assets of the PDI report, detailing the material goods of the controversial evangelical pastor Eduardo Durán, maximum authority of the Evangelic Cathedral of Santiago, quie n is part of an investigation of the East Prosecutor’s Office for alleged money laundering.
That heritage consists, among other things, eight vehicles – including two models Ford’s collection of years 20 – and 12 properties which, according to business information, have an appraisal tax $1152 million, amount which could double if you consider the price market, according to details of the La Tercera newspaper.
However, this is still suspicious to the Prosecutor Felipe Sepúlveda, who ordered the Brilac officials do a survey of the heritage of Duran and take a series of statements, including those of some Evangelical pastors, as Mario Salfate Chacana, of the Pentecostal Methodist Church of private law, and Bernardo Cartes Venegas of the Pentecostal Methodist Church of public law.
All the evidence of them agree on one point: do not remember that Duran had a millionaire heritage before: “before becoming a pastor was the person of confidence of the Bishop Javier Vásquez Valencia, who died in 2003, then taking it in that year as pastor of the” Cathedral. Prior to that, held a regular economic life, with a good root in the commune of Central station, and not the millionaire heritage which today possesses”.
According to the aforementioned to declare their income “they usually come from the Church and its faithful, but he is presumed to be for the management and growth of the Church, and in any case for the enrichment of the natural person who directs them.” In addition, States that “some question that revenues come only from tithe”. Likewise, believe “That Castro Durán skipped years in ecclesiastical degrees of shepherd”.
Another point in the report prepared by the POI details link Duran with a woman of initial A.E. She told the police that maintained sentimental relations with the evangelical pastor, and which received $35 million to pay for an apartment in Providence who bought between the two. In addition, according to the report, said currently live in other property owned by Duran in Las Condes root, and that between 2013 and 2017 were canceled her monthly $3 million as an “interpreter of the Evangelical Cathedral”.
It also has two buildings occupied as offices, valued at $357 million and $335 million, respectively, and with a good root in Isla de Maipo, which in summer period works as a campsite, which has an entry price and rented to outside , “not having permission to do so, or with initiation of activities before the SII”, as detailed by the Treasurer of the group, Manuel Jerez.
The report concludes that “it has not been possible to establish a crime for money laundering”.

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